Committee: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Topic: Development over Growth

Signatories: Brunei, India, France, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, UK,
USA,

Taking into consideration

the importance to foster both economic growth and development for the
successful and continuous growth of the region markets,
Noting with concern the poor labor conditions within the Asia and Pacific region due to the lack of
compromise of international working ethics,
Noting the problem of undernourishment suffered by the region based on lack of investment and access to
new technologies on the agriculture sector and the damage that the soils have suffered with in the region
as a result of economic activities within the region,
Remembering

the importance to work alongside international such as the World Bank in order to
stimulate markets and pave the way to attract Foreign Direct Investment to the said markets
Reaffirming its resolution 54/4 of september 7, 2011 which encourages the mobilization of human and
financial resources for further implementation of actions to achieve the population and development goals
of the ESCAP region,
Stressing the fact that the financial support received from the international community has been
distributed poorly,
Capacity building
1.
Promotes the use of Information Technology Agreements (ITAs) as a method of enhancing
cooperation among nations in regarding capacity-building through information and technology, in alliance
with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), that
will:
a. Increase technical capacity of academic-related sectors, to route themselves into new lines of
productivity, studying the technology and communications related economic activities in the
region;
b. Protect intellectual property licenses through the standardized regulations of The World Trade
organization (WTO);
c. Permits the interchange exchange of information and technology transfer throughout the region,
to evaluate Multi-stakeholders policy plans that conduce to macro-economic reforms to diversify
productivity, especially in agricultural and services sectors;
2.
Suggests the use of agricultural mechanization by the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural
Mechanization (CSAM) in alliance with the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs at a regional
and sub-regional level, through the ESCAPs sub-regional bodies, to promote capacity building in
national and Transnational Corporations in the agricultural area through:
a.
The use of periodical forums and roundtables that will exchange information, new techniques,
research and any other aspect considered by the attendants;
b. The creating of a Know-How Handbook that will explain, step-by-step, how to implement the
Asian and Pacific Network for Testing of Agricultural Machinery (ANTAM) Codes;

c.

Creating

an E-Learning Platform in the CSAM site where the outcomes of the aforementioned
forums and roundtables will be available, as well as any other information deemed as relevant by
the CSAM;
d. The use of the best practices specified in the ESCAP Special Report annexed in this resolution
concerning agriculture, manufacture, and other industries;
3. Decides to create the E-Tech Platform, an online platform for scientific and technological knowledge
sharing creating in alliance with the ITU that involves all corresponding government institutions,
companies and universities from the region, as follows:
a. Within this platform research documents and results will be openly shared;
b.
If the institutions wish to make use of the platforms knowledge to develop products or services
must pay a fee both to the webpage and the author of the document;
c.
Besides being able to share the information they will also be able to communicate and discuss
subjects of interests through the website;
4. Further promotes the Asian-Pacific Free Information Zone Summit hosted by the UN Commission on
Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) in alliance with ESCAP regional bodies that will
unite regional leaders to create a plan where the flow of information is free and open, having to pay no fee
for intellectual property, copyright, or any other kind of fee;
5.
Encourages the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) to work alongside the Center for
Economic Performance in order to develop the Asia and Pacific Performance Indicator (API), in order to
gauge the level in which countries are actually benefiting from international trade agreements, as well as
any kind Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from Transnational Companies (TNCs), taking into
consideration social, humanitarian, political and economic development within a nation, taking into
consideration the following guidelines:
a.
Analyze and gauge the following economic indicators in order to determine net economic
benefits:
i.
Increase of Gross Domestic Product per capita;
ii.
Net exports and trade deficits;
iii.
Increase or decrease of national debt;
iv.
GINI index;
b.
Determine the overall benefit to human and social development of a nation. based on the
following indicators:
i.
Human development index;
ii.
Unemployment rates;
iii.
Poverty lines;
iv.
Global Slavery Index;
c. Determine if trade agreements have had a benefit in the political enhancement of the nation in a
period of five years by measuring:
i.
Corruption perception index;
ii.
Good Governance Index;
iii.
Bribe Payers index;
iv.
Government Response Rating;

d. Determine if they have a negative impact in technological development within the region by
measuring and analyzing growth and development of technological infrastructure as well as ICTS
in a specific period of time
e.
Based on the economic, political, social and humanitarian increase, determine if trade
agreements, as well as FDI are in fact beneficial or not to a nation, and score the level of how
favorable or unfavorable said agreements is from -1 to 1 in the API indicator, in which -1 implies
not beneficial at all, and 1 absolutely beneficial to the nation;
f. Elaborate an annual API report which will be revised Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific
and stored within in the ESCAP statistical database;
6.
Recommends the United Nations Financing for Development Office to implement the Regional
Assessment for Development plan (RAD) in order to monitor and analyze current free trade agreements,
as well as foreign direct investments with the objective of boosting the overall economy of nations by
developing specific policies and recommendations on the current agreements based on the impact that
said policies have in the overall economies of nations reported in the Asia and Pacific Performance
Indicator (API) study, and by complying with the following guidelines:
a. Based on the API score, classify the area in which trade agreements and FIDs are flawed in:
unfavorable for social development of a nation, unfavorable for economic development,
unfavorable for political development, Unfavorable for the competitive dynamics of a region;
b.
Establish a set of recommendations and policies with the intent to amended already existing
trade agreements with the objective of bettering the overall impact that said policies have in a
nation;
c. Analyze the underlying reason why FDIs are none favorable to overall well-being of a nation
based on the aforementioned classifications, in order to develop specific recommendations on a
case by case basis intend to better the impact that FDIs have on both the overall labor
environment of the nations as well as overall benefit of the TNCs;
7.
Suggests the implementation of the Teach 2 Transfer Program: a multi-stakeholder platform to
promote bilateral cooperation between university level institutions, enterprises, and governments in order
for them to enhance the capacity building area, specifically by facilitating technology transfer, this
program will be comprised by the upcoming characteristics:
a.
Regionally recognized universities shall submit biannual reports to the ESCAP where they
include (but not limited to), procedures implemented for the incentive of research among their
institutions and technologies applied for the realization of research programs:
i.
These reports shall be redistributed for less recognized or new universities in order to
enhance their own technologies and impulse the areas where each institution specializes
throughout capacity building,
ii.
Member states are also to be in conjunction with these reports and have access to the
same advances and information in order for them to keep promoting them and also have
access to this same information for purposes of serving as an advising organ for
governments in order for them use such information for the full competence of their
duties,
iii.
As an annex to such reports, regional small and new institutions shall specify which
exact efforts are being taken in pursuit of such investigations,

b.

Governments

shall comply with the promotion of such reports to the aforementioned institutions
and enterprises committed to invest in these technologies through:
i.
Propaganda campaigns mainly directed to the institutions,
ii.
Communication with the enterprises and businesses throughout the pertinent national
organisms,
c.
Further ahead, the governments will also incentive enterprises to invest in the programs by
providing them with benefits related with (but not limited to) social responsibility such as tax
reductions,
d. Also endorses local and regional enterprises to invest in infrastructure and human capital for
small universities with aim of generating:
i.
Capacity building for students throughout their participation of internships in these
enterprises and businesses,
ii.
Infrastructure for students for their capacitation among the institution, depending in
which areas the university and the company are specialized in;
iii.
Enterprises gaining technological advances for their purposes on production, training
of personnel and, of course, the aforementioned taxes reduction;
8. Encourages regional and national enterprises to implement the Private Cooperation Program among
the private sector, a political and economical agreement on a national level that has an aim generating
investment from multinational companies and foreign investors to mono-productive local firms, this
program will be held under the following criteria:
a. Enterprises shall employ local firms into their productive processes ranging from supply parts
and raw material to intangible services such as advertisement and market research;
b.
In exchange, the most developed enterprises will receive political empowerment from the
benefited governments by:
i.
Participation of the company authorities in political organs such as Chambers of
Commerce;
ii.
Acknowledging the company for programs such as the Teach 2 Transfer,
iii.
Based on the RAD program of the FDO policies and mechanism for anti-oligopoly
measures will be enacted in order to ensure that big companies will not displace smaller
companies through unethical tactics;
iv.
Social and public recognition of the participation of enterprises under this program by
media campaigns promoting their effort for social and economic development;
9. Calls upon the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) of the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) to have a negotiation roundtables between the most protectionist states in
regards of intellectual property transfer and the private sector to amend the excessive rules about the
non-tariff barriers, promote cooperation, and to understand the needs of every party;
10. Recommends all member states the adoption of the Seed Program, coordinated by the Center for
Sustainable Agriculture Mechanization (CSAM) and the Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through
Sustainable Agriculture (CAPSA), that consists in strengthening agriculture capacity development with
the help of the French Agency for Development in partnership with the United Nations World Food
Programme (UNWFP) and conformed of a group of professionals in agriculture development, in order to
increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way, by transforming farming methods and improving
staple crops such as maize, wheat, and rice, through the following aspects:

a. Destined to enhance the agriculture capacity of the existing farms in the region
undeveloped or that have been affected by pollution;
b. Listening to farmers and addressing their specific needs;
c. Increasing farm productivity, by supporting a comprehensive approach to helping
smallholder farmers prosper that includes access to new technologies;
d. Fostering sustainable agricultural practices, taking into account the increasing scarce
resources and growing impact of climate change, by encouraging farmers to embrace and
adopt sustainable practices that help them grow more with less land, water, fertilizer, and
other costly inputs, while preserving natural resources for future generations;
e. Achieving greater impact with partners, communicating our strategy more effectively,
and sharing what weve learned with grantees and other partners, including governments,
NGOs, traditional and emerging donors, and the private sector, resources, collaborating
effectively with others maximizes the collective impact in helping farming families and
letting them help the thousands of refugees needed;
11. Recommends all member states the adoption of the Seed Program, coordinated by the Center for
Sustainable Agriculture Mechanization (CSAM) and the Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through
Sustainable Agriculture (CAPSA), that consists in strengthening agriculture capacity development with
the help of the French Agency for Development in partnership with the United Nations World Food
Programme (UNWFP) and conformed of a group of professionals in agriculture development, in order to
increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way, by transforming farming methods and improving
staple crops such as maize, wheat, and rice, through the following aspects:
a.
b.
c.
d.

e.

Destined

to enhance the agriculture capacity of the existing farms in the region undeveloped or
that have been affected by pollution;
Listening to farmers and addressing their specific needs;
Increasing farm productivity, by supporting a comprehensive approach to helping smallholder
farmers prosper that includes access to new technologies;
Fostering sustainable agricultural practices, taking into account the increasing scarce resources
and growing impact of climate change, by encouraging farmers to embrace and adopt sustainable
practices that help them grow more with less land, water, fertilizer, and other costly inputs, while
preserving natural resources for future generations;
Achieving greater impact with partners, communicating our strategy more effectively, and
sharing what weve learned with grantees and other partners, including governments, NGOs,
traditional and emerging donors, and the private sector, resources, collaborating effectively with
others maximizes the collective impact in helping farming families and letting them help the
thousands of refugees needed;

12. Decides the creation of the ESCAP Special Report on TNCs in each nation, by requesting, from each
member state, the necessary information and aid in the conduction of this study, that will determine:
a. The work environment in such nations, how it helps the nation in regards of GDP, the work
opportunities it provides, and any other aspect considered by ESCAP;
b. The TNCs adjustment to international and national labor regulations created by ILO and WTO;

c.

Corruption issues that they may have in their local establishments as well as any other agency
they may have;
d. Incentive mechanisms inside the TNCs, in that manner it is vital to ensure social security access
from within the organization;
13. Recommends the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to work alongside
the International Labor Organization (ILO), and, in cooperation with the United Nations Environmental
Program (UNEP), in order to enact the Asian and Pacific Labor (APL) act, with the intent to ensure
decent work conditions within the region through the development of an international regulatory
framework based on the 2015 Modern Slavery Act taking into consideration the following guidelines:
a. The APL act shall clearly specify operational mechanisms that guarantee transparency in the
process of recruitment, employment and exiting of workers within the region, through the
implementation of the Annual Statement for the Transparency in the Supply Chain of
Companies which will include the following information of companies, as well as, suppliers to
companies:
i.
Information regarding recruitment fees, written contracts, as well as information on w
potential employees are fully aware of the employment terms;
ii.
Labor hours, as well as minimum wages of the employees shall be presented in the
annual statement;
iii.
Exit conditions of employees when terminating a contract shall be presented in the
annual report taking into consideration runaway fees, return travel fees and final
payments upon termination of their contract;
b. The APL act shall clearly specify monitoring mechanisms that ensure that the activities
conducted by enterprises within the region are in compliance with the ASTM international
standards for waste management, by implementing the Annual Statement of Waste
Management which will include:
i.
Full disclosure of total gas emissions as well as the process flow diagram for gas
emission treatments prior emissions;
ii.
Information regarding alkalinity, metal concentration and temperature of all effluents
discarded by a company, as well level of contamination of the discharge reservoir;
iii.
shall be presented in the stamen in addition to the mechanisms of transport and proper
disposal of solid wastes;
c. The Annual Statement for the Transparency in the Supply Chain of Companies, and the Annual
Statement of Waste Management shall be sent to the ILO and the UNEP respectively in order to
to analyze the information provided and identify and wrongful or misleading information;
d. Companies that sign off wrongful information, or any kind of misleading information in their
annual statements shall be held accountable in accordance to each country's national law;
14. Further recommends the United Nations Conference on Trade And Development (UNCTAD) to
develop the New Asia and Pacific Path (NAPP) Convention, in order to engage as many possible many
stakeholders such as Trans National Companies, National Companies and Policy makers in the new
policies and frameworks for decent work within the region, which will be developed according to the
following guidelines:
a. The New Asia and Pacific Path Convention will be held on September 2017 once the Asian and
Pacific Labor act is enacted;

b. The mission of the conference will be to engage, integrate and ensure the commitment of
enterprises, as well of policy makers, in the new policies for development within the region;
c.
The activities within the conference will be developed in the scope of the Asian and Labor
Pacific Act, in which companies will learn at first hand the importance of their commitment as
well as the benefit that APL act represents for development within the region;
15. Further promotes the creation of a regional Partnership for Resilience and Environmental
Preparedness (PREP) in alliance with UNEP, UNDP and the UN Department of Economic and Social
Affairs in order to enhance means national for national `preparation in case of environmental disasters,
with the objective reducing the impact might have on economic growth, and hence in efforts for
development within a nation, taking into consideration the following guidelines:
a. Nations must create national Offices for Resilience and Preparedness to carry out this partnership
and oversee its proper implementation;
b. The Offices and the PREP shall prioritize information on environmental hazards and how to
mitigate the economic effects, and make them available for the general public;
c. Adapting, creating, and applying Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMP) created by the PREP offices;
d. Conducting forums and annual meetings to exchange information on how to enhance HMPs
through new technology and methods;
e. All steps shall be taken involving all aspects of society: government, NGOs, private sector, civil
society, and any other interested party;
conomic institutions
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16. Encourages nations within the region to work alongside Transparency International in order to
implement Implementation of the Proper Distributions of Funds (PDF) in order to ensure that funds
intend for sustainable development within a region will actually reach their intended destination which
will be developed according to the following guidelines:
a. Determine and identify programs which funds are not reaching their intended destination by
measuring the following aspects:
i.
The goals and expectation a program intends to reach in a specific time period;
ii.
The actual results obtained by the program during a specific period of time;
iii.
The budget deficit or surplus intended for the full development of a program;
b. Further analyze the reasons why the policies implemented are not reaching their intended
objectives, in order to identify if the failure to accomplish said objectives are due to corrupt
activities carried out on both a grand, as well as a small scale, taking into account:
i.
If the funds and resources related to accomplishing a specific objective, are actually
reaching their intended destination;
ii.
If actions to obstruct the full implementation of a specific policy, are being carried out
by stakeholders who have a potential conflict of interest in said policy;
iii.
If means of sharing information between politics and stakeholders are transparent clear,
and complete without any tergiversation;
c. Based on the data establish a Proper Distribution of Funds network that established mechanisms
for each program that ensures that funds actually reach their intended destination;
17. Promotes the implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a means of connecting the
public sector with the private sector including but not limited to universities, Transnational Companies,

and other interested parties, through Regional Development Banks such as the Asian Development Bank
and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, in order to:
a.
Boost agricultural mechanization by creating new technologies and methods;
b. Foment the use of bio-fortification in agriculture as a means of making crops environment and
hazard resistant as well as enhancing their nutrients;
c. Increase job opportunities through this partnerships, especially for youth;
d. Promote the creation of new developments in all areas of development including but not limited
to infrastructure, instruments, technology;
18. Recommends the implementation of a program of Foreign Aid Stimulus packages given by the World
Bank and Regional Development Banks such as Asian Development Bank and Asian Development Bank
of Investment in order to promote the development programs, to foster responsible economic growth to
pave the way for markets to be able to withstand Foreign Direct Investment, as follows:
a. The countries who will benefit from this program will have first to commit to using this packages
only to invest on the programs outlined in this resolution, and should deliver annual reports to this
commission and to the Bank which lend the money;
b. Countries who work with this program should commit themselves to in a ten years period to
modify their legal framework and the public policies to start attracting Foreign Direct Investment;
19. Encourages to evaluate conjoint projects and funding with institutions of the World Bank, like the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Development Association
(IDA), the international Finance Corporation, and the Multilateral Investments Guarantees Agency
(MIGA), and also work out resolutions and projects with the UNDP, UNEP, FAO and UNESCO, that
can:
a. Enhance technical innovations to be used in agricultural exploitation;
b. Tackle rapid urbanization, with the aim of reducing the differences between urban and rural
sectors by constructing durable and sustainable infrastructure in the rural sectors (in terms of
house-building and corporate branch constructing), to avoid massive migrations to industrialized
urban sectors
c. Promote eco-sustainable cleansing and sanitation projects;
d. These projects will generate many well-compensated jobs, that endorse a sustainable conscience
and an efficient usage of natural resources;
e. Academic sectors will develop a technological infrastructure that regulates the use of alternative
energy sources and orientates production towards ecology;
f. Reinforce cultural and tourism sectors to contribute to the satisfaction of GDP and to attract
foreign investment;
20. Urges the WB to create a Regional Sub-committee for Asia and the Pacific in the already existing
Development Committee, operating under the following parameters:
a. The meetings of the regional sub-committees must be twice a year;
b. The agenda will be based on issues recommended by the South Asia Regional Training and
Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC), and the Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Center
(PFTAC);
c. It will begin operations in 2017;
21. Calls upon the IMF to establish Asia and Pacific Full Cooperation program, in which efforts between
all the regionals organization, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the

International Monetary Fund, will be coordinated in order to ensure synergy within said parties provide
the most efficient results for development, and which will be developed based on the TROIKA
(cooperation between the European commission, the European Central Bank and the international
monetary fund), and taking into consideration the following guidelines:
a. Taking into consideration the API study establish and the necessities within;
b. Study the probabilities of creating a Regional Economic Block (REB), to negotiate economic
agreements with Regional economic and social organisms like the European Union, Mercosur,
African Union, CELAC, etc.
c. Promote communications between regional Free Trade Agreements (FTA) in order to link said
agreements with The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Asia-Europe Meeting
(ASEM) with the objective of facilitating Economic Growth within the region and promoting
cooperation, integration of all relevant partners involved;